I've never worked with Vista but the biggest problem I got moving XP installs around used to be drivers for the system drive. In your case, that shouldn't be a problem.Reinstalling in place also used to work decently (some settings were picked up from the existing install and so on). So that might be an option if Vista refuses the new mobo without reinstalling.

But first make sure you can't offload the existing computer on someone else (why waste a good mobo+CPU+RAM and the system building work?) and that you're going buy a mobo with compatible slots for your cards.

I've never worked with Vista but the biggest problem I got moving XP installs around used to be drivers for the system drive. In your case, that shouldn't be a problem.Reinstalling in place also used to work decently (some settings were picked up from the existing install and so on). So that might be an option if Vista refuses the new mobo without reinstalling.

But first make sure you can't offload the existing computer on someone else (why waste a good mobo+CPU+RAM and the system building work?) and that you're going buy a mobo with compatible slots for your cards.

Thanks, I plan to sell the mobo+CPU+RAM on ebay once I get the upgrade working.

I don't see that you should have any major problems, apart from maybe a few reboots to complete the updating of drivers, etc. As you have a retail version of Vista reactivation issues are unlikely, assuming that is that reactivation is required. Any of your other software that has required activation may trigger a reactivation request, but probably no more than asking you to confirm that the program is only being run on one machine. Sometimes software that requires activation may have a deregistration or deactivation option to facilitate a change of hardware - it might be worth checking to see if this applies to anything you currently have installed.

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